Top 5 Unseen fights

"The WBC stands for We Be Crooks" - James Toney.

 

Always wanted to see Quarry-Mathis from the garden in '69

 

Greb-Walker by far. If ever there would be a legit, significant bout to point to for the claim that Greb was the GOAT, it would be this one...,and I for one, would just LOVE to see it.....most especially round 15.

 

Ther aforementioned Quarry-Mathis and Olivares-Rudkin are up there too.

 

West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame, on their Facebook page, posted a picture of the cover of the program from that fight just two days ago.

 

This one.

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By people who paid to see it in New York theaters.
Harry Greb v Mickey Walker, Harry Wills v Charley Weinert and Dave Shade v Jimmy Slattery were all filmed (they were the same card) and advertised for showing in theaters within a week or two of having taken place.
The Olympic theater in Buffalo, New York, for example, advertised they had secured first rights and were showing all three fights from Sunday to Wednesday (the fight occurred on the previous Thursday, I believe).

Others have claimed to have seen the Greb-Walker fight years later. Which isn't impossible or even particularly unlikely. Although obviously it's impossible to verify the later claims until someone shows us it.

 

apart from the obvious mentioned , ida liked to seen hagler v finnegan 1

 

I would really like to be able to see some John L. Sullivan fights on film.

 

With so many of the old fight videos being really low quality, I often wonder how much our perception of these fighters would change if we could somehow see the videos in HD or 4K.

 

I believe three of Grebs fights were filmed but unfortunately I think those tapes became dust decades ago.

I personally would love to see :-

Greb-Walker
Pep-Saddler II
Langford-Gans
Jofre-Saldivar (honestly anything Jofre that’s not out there)
Leonard-Welsh III

There’s so many though. I’ve always wanted to see fights I’m sure are out there like Ortiz-Laguna II, Olivares-Castillo III, Rodriguez-Cokes, Briscoe, Carter series etc;

 

Marciano v Shkor
Marciano v Vingo
Jeffries v Sharkey
More Archie Moore fights in his earlier years can’t seem to find many

 

My most wanted in a loose order:

1. Greb - Walker
2. McGovern - Dixon I
3. Ketchel - Papke II or III
4. Greb - Tunney I
5. Montgomery - Williams I
6. Borkorsor - Gonzalez
7. Leonard - Welsh III
8. Walcott - Lavigne I
9. Jeffries - Fitzsimmons I or II
10. Britton - Lewis XVIII
11. Robinson - Gavilan II
12. Labarba - Genaro
13. Mysterious Billy Smith - Tommy Ryan III
14. Pep - Saddler II
15. Kid Williams - Herman II
16. Walcott - Langford
17. Park - Canto II
18, 19, 20. Gans - McFadden I, II & III
21. McAuliffe - Griffo
22. McGovern - Palmer
23. Wilde - Lynch
24. McGovern - Gardner
25. Yanger - Attell

Off the top of my head anyway.

 

Pretty sure I had Ortiz-Laguna II...but as I said in private message, I have pretty much nothing now.

Although I did find Rodriguez vs LC Morgan!